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+++ b/macros/latex-dev/required/graphics/grfguide.tex
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-%% grfguide.tex Copyright (C) 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 David Carlisle
-%% Copyright (C) 2005-2020 David Carlisle, LaTeX3 Project
+%% grfguide.tex Copyright (C) 1994-1999 David Carlisle
+%% Copyright (C) 2005-2021
+%% The LaTeX Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
+%% in this file.
%%
%% This file is part of the Standard LaTeX `Graphics Bundle'.
%% It may be distributed under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public
@@ -59,8 +61,8 @@ stroke
\begin{document}
\title{Packages in the `graphics' bundle}
-\author{D. P. Carlisle \and The \LaTeX3 Project}
-\date{2020-08-21}
+\author{D. P. Carlisle \and The \LaTeX\ Project}
+\date{2021-03-05}
\maketitle
@@ -764,28 +766,12 @@ This would declare a default rule, such that all unknown extensions
would be treated as EPS files, and the graphic file would be read for
a BoundingBox comment.
-\emph{command} is usually empty, but if non empty it is used in place
-of the filename in the |\special|. Within this argument, |#1| may be
-used to denote the filename. Thus using the dvips driver, one may
-use\\
-|\DeclareGraphicsRule{.ps.gz}{eps}{.ps.bb}{`zcat #1}|\\
-the final argument causes dvips to use the |zcat| command to unzip the
-file before inserting it into the PostScript output.
-
-Note that \LaTeX\ will find the graphics file by searching along
-TEXINPUTS (and possibly other places, as specified with
-|\graphicspath|) however it may be that the command you specify
-in this argument can not find such files unless they are in the
-current directory. On some systems it may be possible to modify
-the command so that it will find any files that \LaTeX\ can find.
-For example on newer web2c \TeX\ releases on unix, one may modify the
-above command so that the last argument is:\\
-|{`zcat `kpsewhich -n latex tex #1`}|\\
-which incantation causes the |kpsewhich| program to find the
-file, by searching along \LaTeX's path, and then pass the full path
-name to the |zcat| program so that it can uncompress the file.
-Any such uses are very system dependent, and would best be placed in
-a |graphics.cfg| file, thus keeping the document itself portable.
+\emph{command} is usually empty, but if non empty it may hold \TeX{} code
+to modify the name of the file as passed to the back end file inclusion
+commands. Within this argument, |#1| may be
+used to denote the original filename. Very early releases of the |dvips| code
+used this mechanism to support compressed EPS files, however for some years
+dvips has directly supported uncompression.
\subsection{Global setting of keys}